Ten Excuses Teens Give About Youth Group (In Memes!)

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Excuses If you have ever spent any time with teenagers in general, you know that they are able to come up with an excuse for everything.  This seems to be particularly true when it comes to youth group.  Sometimes teenagers have a good excuse for why they cannot attend a youth function or event, other times the excuse is shallow

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Youth Conventions: 5 Reasons they are incredibly important to the Church.

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Youth Conventions Being a youth pastor and having a passion for teenagers and developing an eternal faith in them, I have a particular interest in youth conventions. I am sure that there are many more than five reasons that youth conventions are important. However, I would like to provide people with five reasons why I personally think they are one

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Man – Biblical Manliness

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Man About a month ago I got the chance to go to a youth convention with a couple of teenagers from my youth group.  It was in Houghton, New York.  There were plenty of things to remember, and a number of them to forget.  Memories were made and I am hoping that there is at least some significant impact of

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IMPACT – Ministry Philosophy

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There is a single part of my ministerial retreat that sticks out in my mind above all else. You could say that it had the greatest impact on me. It came from the very first session from Mike Hilson. It was an acronym that ended up spelling out the word IMPACT. I think it was supposed to be a general

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